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Hide items in config.sys
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Name: zintazu
Date: January 12, 2004 at 02:13:16 Pacific
Subject: Hide items in config.sys
OS: Win98 (DOS)
CPU/Ram: P4 512 RAM
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Comment: Hi, Is it possible to "hide" config.sys content, so it will not be displayed on the screen. Example, MS Ramdrive displays different info's on the screen. Is it possible to get at blank screen instead.?
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Response Number 1
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Name: JackG
Date: January 12, 2004 at 02:56:58 Pacific
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Reply: No, not with normal methods. The messages are put out by the various device drivers using low leave DOS functions or in some cases BIOS commands. There are some commond options that reduce some of the messages, but not all. They all like to get their copyright displayed no matter what you want. You could write a couple of run and exit device drivers that turn the video display adapter output off at the hardware level, simple stuff to do. But the problem is, the CONFIG.SYS processor makes multiple passes through the file and executes some items like HIMEM.SYS, EMM386 first before running non DOS system *.SYS files, so this would not work for their messages. Not sure where RamDrive falls into the priority, but as it is an system driver it might get loaded on the first pass.
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Name: Petit Jean
Date: January 12, 2004 at 12:55:01 Pacific
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Reply: BLACKOUT.EXE (C) Dr. GJC Lokhorst 02/16/1993
Suppresses messages from CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
First line of CONFIG.SYS:
device=[drive:][directory]blackout.exe
Last line of AUTOEXEC.BAT:
[drive:][directory]blackout.exe
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/sysutil/blackout.zip
This is a program from the Garbo archive worth experimenting.It was tested on ms-dos 3.3 to 5.0 but may work on other versions.The download is 2 Ko.Good luck.
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Response Number 5
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Name: jboy
Date: January 12, 2004 at 14:50:11 Pacific
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Reply: Echo: Displays or hides the text in batch programs when the program is running.
(including autoexec.bat) Doesn't work in config.sys
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